Minding Movement
embodied tool kit for professionals
MINDING MOVEMENT MIGHT BE SUITABLE FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO …
Develop an enhanced embodied tool kit, using the curriculum from Open Floor Movement Practice, to resource you personally & professionally.
Experience the delightful efficiency of problem solving when including the language of the body.
Be in a community of practitioners.
Take the opportunity to be in a space where you are held rather than doing the holding.
WHAT’S INCLUDED …
Minding Movement provides insight and support for practitioners through a creative and embodied lens.
We work with online tools to enhance the group experience, so this is for people who are curious about this way of working. Every session will include time in Break Out Rooms; sharing and evaluating how what’s been experienced for you as a practitioner and, to then have time to ask questions in the main Zoom Room. Also a full 10 minutes of movement will be given to explore and integrate after each 1:1.
Each session will focus on one Core Movement Resource.
All sessions count as hours towards Open Floor Teacher Training.
DROP-IN
2 hour online sessions
‘A STEP UP’
6 week online closed group
WHAT ARE DROP-IN SESSIONS?
2 hour online sessions focusing on embodied supervision.
Open for all practitioners looking for somatic informed supervision, including if you’ve attended a previous MM group or are interested in working towards joining ‘a Step Up’.
DROP-IN SESSION DATES:
Next Date: TBC, to register your interest for next session, email Beth: beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
“Recognising similarities in the vulnerability of others, peeled away my confining protective shell.”
WHAT IS ‘A STEP UP’?
I WORK ONLINE WITH A GROUP OF PROFESSIONALS OVER 6 WEEKS, rather than a workshop; the distinction being it is a space for more than personal reflection and process.
It’s an opportunity to go deeper as there’s familiarity with the structure, the way I work and what we’re doing. This supports us to delve more into the curriculum that I’m using, how I’m using it and how it’s useful and relevant for you, in your professional teaching practices.
We create more safety and understanding in the closed group thus encouraging a more creative and curious learning environment.
Open to participants from previous MM groups or drop-in sessions, so that everyone begins with a mutual understanding and intention.
We create a private Telegram group, as a valid place to pose questions, as that way I and the group discover what's similar and different for each of you. It’s also a place to support each other between sessions.
‘A STEP UP’ DATES:
Next Group: 20 February - 27 March 2025. Sessions are every Thursday 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM, UK time (check your timezone here).
Price: £300 for 6 sessions, deposit of £55 secures your place.
Places: 6 places available per group. Instalment payments are possible and 1 subsidised place is available, to enquire email: beth@vitalmoves.co.uk
Emma Bradford speaks about her experience, and working online with Deborah Lewin.
(video length 3:39 minutes)
“to recognise the common ground between all of us - so many of us work in different ways but then there were all these common threads and recognising that shared humanity amongst us all was really powerful…”
What others are saying about Minding Movement
“Deborah Lewin is a masterful teacher with decades of experience that show in her gentle confidence and intuitive heartfelt mentorship. It was very enjoyable and satisfying.”
“I loved Minding Movement with Deborah. A wonderful, safe and inspiring place to be held as a professional and connect with other professionals. Seeing each person go through their journey and Deborah’s skillful guidance, support and wisdom made these weekly sessions a joy to attend. (...) Seeing the expertise in simple guidance that helped each person find points of reflection and integration. Thank you!”
“Being taught by someone who is 100% present with herself and with you, Deborah’s Minding Movement is a powerful teaching modality created through her lifetime of movement study, conscious enquiry, embodied practice, her dedication to healing through the wisdom of the body. ”
“[I would recommend to] any fellow dancing friends and professionals that are looking for extra support and somatic work.”
“Minding Movement has given me the opportunity to feel into new ways of working with clients. By observing Deborah utilising body movements with reflective communication I’ve witnessed mental and emotional shifts in feeling and thought processes in a short period of time. This is exciting and inspiring and feeling dynamically relevant to the work I do. ”
“What was most of value to you?
- Observing Deborah’s skills, body language, pace, how she responds to the unique moment, how she holds the teaching space.
- Hearing the Open Floor language and some of its core principles.
- The ‘initiations’ themselves.
- ‘Echoing’ the words/expressions the ‘client’ used during their process made me feel i was contributing to/participating in their absorption process, helping it land in my body as well.”
“I have found this group incredibly rich. I’ve been inspired by the skill and presence, the perspectives and metaphors, the creativity and spontaneity within this group. I have been deeply touched, challenged and sustained by our time together.”
“It felt like we were witnessing a ‘liturgy’ in your facilitation of her initiation.
In our breakout room conversation we articulated ways of incorporating your skills in our own practice.”
*Header image courtesy of Rob Ashworth
GET IN TOUCH WITH US TO REGISTER, OR ENQUIRE ABOUT MINDING MOVEMENT.
Whichever hemisphere you are in, we invite you to join us in virtual community for this 6 week journey; to commit to yourself, to presence, to move and reconnect with your body, and sow seeds of awareness and intention for your professional work.
